260 days ago
by Kevin |
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Well,
I finally sat down last night night and drew up the shop. This was the first attempt, so it may change some. Also most of the tools/cabinets are very rough or borrowed. I’ll try to get them better when gets closer to constructing them.
I’ll start you out on the East wall. Most of this is already set in stone you might say. I am planning on putting a pipe rack over the double garage door. May get used for dimensional lumber storage as well. On the left is my double ...
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302 days ago
by Loogie |
17 comments »
After years of building my projects in basements, I’m finally building my own shop. This building will be a three level shop building (including the attic). The main (middle) level will be my woodshop and the basement will be my tractor garage/shed/auto shop. The project is far behind schedule and way over budget, but aren’t they all? The foundation is 25’ wide by 30’ deep giving me just under 750 sq/ft of woodshop. It’s never enough, but it would be very hard to...
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357 days ago
by YooperCasey |
11 comments »
Hello and welcome to my first Blog!
The intent of this blog is to track my entrance into the world of woodworking. There seems to be a gap between the people who are just getting into woodworking, and those who have been enjoying the hobby for ten years. So, this is my attempt to fill some of that gap. You’ll get to watch me make mistakes, buy some bad tools, and hopefully you’ll learn from my mistakes.
First off is my mission statement, the “why am I doing this?”...
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249 days ago
by Kevin |
3 comments »
Latest design for South wall
This is my design for a cabinet to hold all of my bolts, screws, and nails.
Progress Pic of it. Bolt bins are in place.
This is my design for a cabinet to hold all of my wood finishes and glues and my wifes paint. (unsupported end screwed to studs)
Progress pics, sorry for all the junk in the way. I had to throw everything out of the middle of the floor in order to fit the triler in overnight.
Workbench is in the background (not for fine wo...
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255 days ago
by Kevin |
13 comments »
I can’t even discribe to you all how I felt Sunday. I don’t think those words are appropriate here, but I’m sure most of you have used them before.
Have you ever assumed something. There is a reason that people say assume makes an ass out of u and me.
I do know better, but my Dad was at the house Sunday and we thought we’d get a bunch done. The first order of business was to get the crown molding and other moldings out of the middle of the floor so we had room to...
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263 days ago
by Kevin |
5 comments »
I am going to “try” to do a good job of taking more pictures of my shop remodel than I usually do.
Of course I have already failed in that because I forgot to take the before pictures with all of tools randomly scattered around and very unuseful.
Intro: I have been very lucky in the last six months in that my lovely wife has allowed me to expand my tool collection. I have bought most of my tools or received them as gifts in the last 6 months actually. See my other posts for...
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275 days ago
by Loogie |
13 comments »
The outside of the shop is almost done all that’s left is to put the shutters and crown moulding on the front window and put the gutters on. The overhead doors won’t be installed until the drywall and paint are complete.
The electricians have been working at a good pace and the rough-in is all completed. The plumbing and electrical inspections should be today.
My 40th birthday is coming up soon. My shop has gone so far over budget that I informed my wife a month or so ag...
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281 days ago
by Todd A. Clippinger |
20 comments »
The shop is not finished but it is operational again. I need to use the space for a project I have going right now.
I still have plenty of work ahead to finish it. I can wait on floor cabinets and worktop but the upper cabinets or at least some open cubby boxes to store glue, sandpaper, routers, etc. are a must. Clamp storage on the wall will clear a good bit of floor space.
I did not have to buy hardly anything to do this work, it was material that I had on hand.
I have many more id...
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283 days ago
by Todd A. Clippinger |
10 comments »
Sunday, 10 Feb ‘08
Finished mudwork on walls. Took Sunday nap.Painted 2 coats of primer.
Trim and paint to follow on Monday. Touch-ups and moving on Tuesday
Peace, Love, and Shop Building
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285 days ago
by Todd A. Clippinger |
16 comments »
One Section Finished
I finished this section of wall the other day and the trim. After that I pushed all the shop “furniture” back against the wall. This opened up the center of the shop again so that I could clear the next section of wall to be finished.
I can’t always work corner to corner because I waited until I put too much crap in the shop to finish the walls. I did, however, already have 3 walls finished as you can see in my workshop posting. Now that I...
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